Day: December 10, 2012

I always find it interesting to find out which NFL team Montrealers like to cheer for and why. Sun Media recently polled 9,724 Canadians in Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Ottawa to find out who their favourite NFL team was. Every city had a different team coming in at No. 1. In Calgary it was […]

There’s no doubt that the NFL is a quarterback’s league. According to NFLShop.com, seven of the top-10 selling jerseys from April 2012 through Nov. 27 were quarterbacks, led by the Washington Redskins’ Robert Griffin III at No. 1. The next five players on the list were all QBs, in order: the Denver Broncos’ Peyton Manning, […]

Welcome to montrealgazette.com and welcome to Midday. Here’s the rundown on the stories we’re following for you today. Montreal’s first real snow storm may have been reduced to a December shower, but that doesn’t diminish it’s capacity for mischief as we slip and slide our way through a stormy Monday. Meanwhile, The Gazette’s Monique Muise […]

It is a warning Quebec anglos have been hearing for the past 40 years – the French language is in danger, Quebec’s identity is threatened. That perceived threat has led to the creation of Quebec’s language charter and four decades of amendments and protests as language activists mobilized against what they have perennially described as […]

California’s Green Day sound tired. As they’ve released three albums in four months, that’s both understandable and entirely forgivable. But it’s also largely un-listenable, as it’s resulted yet another lethargic collection of what sounds like hungover Elvis Costello B-sides. There was punk in Green Day once, but as with ¡Uno! and ¡Dos!, there’s little of […]

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